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Bridgette 2022-04-21 09:01:50

We drove to the ends of the earth, looking for a beautiful town, looking for a bar, I want to buy us something to drink, I haven't had a drink in 19 years, but I want to have a drink with you, and then I will leave.

I tell you never to write to me and never come back to see me; I tell you that I believe in heaven, and I believe I will meet you again, and your mother, just not in this life.

You can get a job, a job where you get cash, a job your boss doesn't care about, start your new life, and never come back. Find the right person to get you a document, like a driver's license, and you wait.

You will see people coming home, but you can never go home. Maybe, of course it's dangerous, but maybe after two years you can write to Nata. Forget New York, you can't come back, you can't make phone calls, you can't write letters.

Maybe years later, that's years since I've been dead, and you'll gather your family, tell them the truth, tell them who you are and where you came from. You tell them everything and ask them if they know how lucky they are now.

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  • Kostya Novotny: [as he arrives late for the party] So how can you start this party without me?

    Monty Brogan: Oh shut up, you fat Russian fuck!

    Kostya Novotny: Fat UKRANIAN fuck!

  • Mary D'Annunzio: I wanted to know why I got a B minus on my paper.

    Jakob Elinsky: You got what you earned.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Nobody else in that class can write! You know it! I know it! Everyone knows it!

    Jakob Elinsky: Don't worry. You're not competing with them.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Yeah. But I am. Okay. I am competing with them. When you apply for college, you might have heard of this, they look at these things called grades and if your grades aren't good enough...

    Jakob Elinsky: Your grades are going to be fine.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Vincent Phiscalla writes a story about his grandmother dying and you give him an A plus. And meanwhile, the night of the funeral, you wanna know where Rhodes Scholar Vince is? Getting smashed at a basketball party and slapping girls asses. I mean, what is that? A charity A+? You wanna know why everybody always writes about their grandmothers dying? It's not because it's so traumatic. It's because it's a guaranteed A+! And you sit there all sentimental "Oh, Vince it was very powerful, very moving." No, it wasn't. You didn't care. Nobody cared. That's what grandmothers do. They die!

    Jakob Elinsky: Sometimes, guys have a hard time showing their emotions.

    Mary D'Annunzio: So, slapping my ass is a way of mourning his dead grandmother?

    Jakob Elinsky: [points to Mary's stomach] What did your mother say when you got that?

    Mary D'Annunzio: Um, she said, "Where did you get the money for that?"

    Jakob Elinsky: And?

    Mary D'Annunzio: What did I say or did I get the money?

    Jakob Elinsky: What did you say?

    Mary D'Annunzio: I said, "He likes me."

    Jakob Elinsky: Does he?

    Mary D'Annunzio: No. Why do you care so much?

    Jakob Elinsky: Just curious.

    Mary D'Annunzio: So, you're not gonna change the grade?

    Jakob Elinsky: No, I'm not going to change the grade.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Great! You know what, this was a big waste of my time!

    Jakob Elinsky: Wait!